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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20080810
Author:John Preston

Roughly 80 per cent of the letters I receive are about the same thing: background music. Or rather, obtrusive background music, which, of course, is not background music at all. If the scale of my correspondence is to be believed, there are huge numbers of people out there who stuff their fingers in their ears and emit bellows of fury whenever a tiny glockenspiel starts beating frenetically away on the soundtrack. Not only is there far too much of it, they argue, but it's becoming ever-more obtrusive.

The Genius of Charles Darwin (Monday, Channel 4) was one of the worst offenders I've come ...

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